Sam Yagan
Sam Yagan
Sam Yagan is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of OkCupid. In 2013, he was named to TIME Magazine's '100 Most Influential People in the World' list. He is currently the CEO of the e-dating site Match.com...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth10 April 1977
CountryUnited States of America
almost behavior believe change human involves medium nature online work
My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
behind brands certainly coordinate fair offer products run
I run all the brands like cousins. You want your cousins to do well, but you want to do better. All of our brands want to win, but we certainly want to fight fair and coordinate as much as we can behind the scenes. But to the consumer, we want to offer the broadest, most competitive set of products that we can.
looks replied send time watch
We can watch every time someone looks at a profile. Do they choose to send that person a message? We can look at every message that's sent, and we can determine, was that message replied to or not.
dating interact met online people
I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.
larger likely select
I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.
best
My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.
hopefully meet might online romantic singles turn whom
I think of OkCupid as an online bar; a place where singles can go, have fun with each other and in the process hopefully meet new people, some of whom might turn into a romantic relationship.
best data matching onto people processes shine work
We think we have the best matching algorithm, we think we have the best members. So why wouldn't we want to just shine the light onto just how our processes work, what the real data are, and let people come to their own conclusions.
accurate girl looked men message messages prediction send sending whether women word
We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.
actual among dating intrigued people
We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.
alone born bringing company lives million parents people properties running states united
There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
anyone ask dating friend job life time
I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.
adjust aesthetic along factor means response sent
Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
bars funny hated looks meeting people single
I hated meeting people at bars when I was single because it's all about the looks and the funny line.